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Sunday, November 08, 2015

1921 British report on deadly anti-Jewish riots shows that things have not changed at all

In the British report on the Jaffa riots of 1921, we see this:


Yet even after that, the report goes on to justify the hate, describing Arab grievances against Jews - perception of taking their jobs, jealously that they were better organized -  and then concludes:



Lots of other parts of that report are relevant today. For example, here is a case where a rumor was created out of whole cloth in order to instigate anti-Jewish rots:




Here is one where Arabs who claimed that they themselves were imprisoned by Jews = of Khedera who were themselves besieged by Arabs was found to be a complete lie:



Yet even today we have credulous "human rights" organizations who will believe and report the most absurd antisemitic rumors without bothering to verify the facts.


(h/t YMedad)


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